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SPIE Invited Speaker for 2017

Jean-luc Doumont: conveying messages with graphs

When: Friday, 24 March 2017 3-5 pm

Where: Roberts 101

Cost: Free

About the event:

Widely used in research to analyze and communicate data, graphical displays are still
poorly mastered by researchers, who frequently display their data sets in a suboptimal
way (and popular software does not exactly help). This lecture discusses how to select
the right graph for a given data set and a given research question, how to optimize
this graph to reveal the data, and finally how to phrase a useful caption.

About Jean-luc:

An engineer (Louvain) and PhD in applied physics (Stanford), Jean-luc Doumont is acclaimed
worldwide for his no-nonsense approach, his highly applicable, often life-changing
recommendations on a wide range of topics, and Trees, maps, and theorems, his book
about “effective communication for rational minds.” For additional information, visit
www.principiae.be.